Intricate Ethics

Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm

F. M. Kamm

Intricate Ethics

Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm

F. M. Kamm

Description

In Intricate Ethics, Kamm questions the moral importance of some non-consequentialist distinctions and then introduces and argues for the moral importance of other distinctions. The first section discusses nonconsequentialist ethical theory and the trolley problem; the second deals with the notions of moral status and rights; the third takes up the issues of responsibility and complicity and the possible moral significance of distance; and the fourth section analyzes the views of others in the non-consequentialist and consequentialist camps.

Intricate Ethics

Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm

F. M. Kamm

Author Information

F. M. Kamm is Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She is the author of Creation and Abortion (1992); Morality, Mortality, Vol. 1: Death and Whom to Save From It (1993); and Morality, Mortality Vol.2: Rights, Duties, and Status (1996), all from Oxford University Press. Kamm has also published many articles on normative ethical theory and practical ethics. She has held ACLS, AAUW, NEH, and Guggenheim fellowships and has been a Fellow of the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School, the Center for Human Values at Princeton, the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford, and the National Institutes of Health. She is a member of the
editorial boards of Philosophy & Public Affairs, Legal Theory, Bioethics, and Utilitas and was a consultant on ethics to the World Health Organization.

Intricate Ethics

Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm

F. M. Kamm

Reviews and Awards

"Intricate Ethics is a major event in normative ethical theory by a living master of the subject. Kamm continues to prove herself the most imaginative, detail-oriented deontologist writing in English today."-Jeffrey Brand-Ballard, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews